Because it's important to always reflect on how we can improve as secondary education educators, it's healthy to get feedback from our clients. A recent survey from my former students resulted, in part, to the following comments from seniors. We can learn from their thoughts. There are a couple of comments that include my name, but this is not posted as a pat-on-the-back moment. While it's admittedly nice to be mentioned by a few comments, it also appears that I need to strive to reach more.
What regrets (if any) do you have regarding your post-secondary path efforts that you completed while a high school student at RHS?...From the Class of 2018
- I have none (10)
- I wish I would have focused more on my schoolwork and less on my extra-curriculars
- Not doing enough community service.
- I could have done more concerning getting scholarship
- I wish I would have started the search sooner and applied myself more to my post-secondary path.
- I wish I would have visited more schools tailored to my major.
- I regret not taking more weighted courses.
- I did not go on college visits until the fall of my senior year and I wish I would have done more visits in the spring of my junior year or summer of senior year.
- I wish that I would've stayed open to private colleges, even though the price sounds scary.
- There are 7 other students in my high school class also attending the same college as me, which sucks, but they'll be 40,000 other students so I guess it will be fine
- I did not apply for scholarships early enough and missed out of several presidential scholarships
-There isn't anything I regret about my post-secondary path efforts.
- Not taking more time to look at different colleges/options.
- I wished that I would have been more responsible and asked for help sooner.
- I regret not doing any type of job shadowing and not doing as many college visits as I should have
- My biggest regret is not getting on scholarships early.
- Not starting to look sooner and not doing more research.
- I don't have any regrets regarding my post-secondary plans. One regret I have is that because I was pressured into pursuing a degree in engineering for most of my high school life, I wasn't allowed to take high school choir. That is my biggest regret.
- I regret not stepping out of my comfort zone sooner and talking to other people. The sooner you are able to easily talk to people the better prepared you will be for post-secondary activities. The only way you'll get a job or further education will be by talking to people and have good networking.
- Applied for scholarships sooner
- I think the UT nursing programs really prepared me for my post-secondary path in nursing.
- I would highly recommend it to anyone who is wanting to go into nursing after high school.
- I got the NHS invitation form three times and never took the time to fill it out. I wish I would have for scholarship opportunities.
- I don’t have any regrets with my plans. I have a great financial package with NIU.
- I didn't take a math class senior year, not sure i'll need it but It'd help
- None, except maybe explore a few more smaller colleges.
- I wish that I taught myself more about Engineering and my subject. I also wish that my computer classes actually taught me about CSS and coding. They just teach you the beginning of HTML, but nothing else is really helpful in preparing me for my post-secondary path.
- Committing to a college too early
- I didn’t look into my secondary path until 3 or 4 months before graduation. i knew what i liked but i never really thought about how to make it into a career
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